Qualifications

Ph.D., Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 2003
Dissertation: “Reflexivity in teams”

M.Sc., Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 1998
Social Psychology, Work- and Organizational Psychology, Sport Psychology

World Ranking of Scientists: top 2%

Stanford University has recently published an update of the list of the top 2% most widely cited scientists in various disciplines, which is considered to be the most prestigious ranking in the world. The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field. Calculations were performed using all Scopus author profiles as of October 1, 2023.

Michaéla Schippers is ranked in the top 2% (1.2%) of the World Ranking of scientists in the world.

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Top scientists’ cooperation

Prof. Dr. Michaéla Schippers has worked in close cooperation with renowned scientist like John Ioannidis, Edwin Locke, Gary Latham, and Jordan Peterson.

Academic Career

Inaugural Address
Click the link to view Michaéla Schippers’ 2017 inaugural speech on YouTube. The full video is available here. Dr. Schippers was a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School. She is also an active member of the EER research database. Dr. Schippers is scientific director of the Erasmus Center of Study and Career Success (E=CS2) and Comenius Senior Fellow.

Research interests

  • goalsetting,
  • team reflexivity,
  • team performance,
  • academic performance
  • as well as ikigai (i.e. purpose in life),
  • and life goals.

Michaéla Schippers coined the term “life crafting” as a way to optimize performance and happiness. Other research interests include:

  • diversity,
  • new ways of working,
  • and social exclusion/inclusion.

Her work was published in several leading academic journals, such as:

  • Annual Review of Psychology,
  • Administrative Science Quarterly,
  • Journal of Management,
  • Journal of Management Studies,
  • Personnel Psychology,
  • Academy of Management Learning & Education,
  • Journal of Organizational Behavior,
  • European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology,
  • Frontiers in Psychology and Human Relations.

Current research

Current research focuses on team reflexivity, team diversity and study success. Other current projects concern knowledge sharing within teams and networks, virtual teams, behavioral operations management, goal-setting, new ways of working, and social exclusion/inclusion.

Research / teaching appointments

  • 2016 – Professor of Behavior and Performance Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
  • 2012 – 2016 Associate Professor Leadership and Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
  • 2010 – Scientific director of the Erasmus Centre for Behavioral Operations Management
  • 2003 – 2012 Assistant Professor of Organization and Personnel Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
  • 2002 – 2003 Assistant Professor of Organizational Psychology, Economics and Business Administration, Free University Amsterdam

Teaching
Currently, Schippers is co-teaching in the Professional Development track. She developed lectures, work groups and assignments around Goal Setting. The goal setting track is an online, written intervention in use since 2011 that enhances study success by 22%. Students write about their ideal life, what they want from life and they set specific goals.

In the past, Schippers taught the master elective “Future of work” which was developed by herself. Within this course, students acquire knowledge of the main concepts ‘the future work place’, ‘distributed work’ and related concepts such as ‘virtual teams’, ‘future education’ and ‘e-learning’, managing the future workplace, and collaboration in 3D virtual worlds. Furthermore, they also experience the different ways of virtual work and how this affects their collaboration and decision making.

Furthermore, she developed and coordinated the following courses within the bachelor:
(700-1000 students within the Dutch program, 350-450 students within the international program)

  • Human Resource Management
  • Psychological and Social Processes
  • Organization and Management
  • Organizational Behavior
Executive/postdoctoral courses

  • Full-time MBA Personal Leadership Development
  • Postdoctoral course Human Behavior
  • Executive Masterclass employee engagement

In light of the “Boost the Bachelor” Michaéla Schippers designed a large first-year course, Organizational Behavior (6 ECTS, Bachelor 1). Schippers was the coordinator as well as the teacher for this course, from 2008 – 2011, with 700-900 students participating in lectures, work groups, team assignments and individual assignments. The course was evaluated exceptionally well. Michaéla Schippers was nominated for the “Best Teacher Award” in 2010 with this course.

Press

See: Work

Michaéla Schippers on negative impact of corona measures

During the covid pandemic, she did many interviews on the psychological side effects of the covid 19 response measures. Schippers’ criticism and point of view were welcomed in alternative media such as Blckbx (blackbox.tv), Café Weltschmerz, De Andere Krant, and Univibes with Tim Douwsma, all of which can boast on substantial numbers of viewers and subscribers. There is a separate page devoted to this subject.